Networking solutions provider Brocade has unveiled its Vyatta platform, an open and modular networking platform for cloud and telecommunications service providers.

This move is the first phase of a multiyear strategy.

The Brocade Vyatta platform is designed to support the build-out of application and subscriber clouds.

Brocade claims Vyatta is the industry’s first articulation of this open strategy.

The Vyatta platform utilizes network functions virtualization (NFV) and emerging software-defined networking (SDN) technologies based on open standards and open source initiatives.

It also uses established core components, such as the Brocade Vyatta vRouter and Brocade vADX products, along with open source software projects OpenDaylight and OpenStack.

The architecture of the Brocade Vyatta platform comprises three core layers – NFV connection services, SDN structural services and functional orchestration.

Brocade said each layer of its Vyatta’s open architecture is modular and enables customers to select the products and/or solutions that fit their data center requirements.

The Brocade Vyatta platform includes -
- NFV Connection Services: Deploy Layer 3-7 network functionality with the Brocade Vyatta vRouter and the Brocade vADX products, along with service chains including third-party elements where needed.

- SDN Structural Services: Leverage the rapid advancements of the multivendor OpenDaylight Project to simplify management through centralized control.

- Functional Orchestration: Engage a range of capabilities from OpenStack and widely interoperable third-party provisioning and orchestration layers.

Brocade said the open and modular nature of this platform enables interoperability and greater choice for customers.

Brocade’s VP and general manager of software networking Kelly Herrell said the growing complexity of current virtualized networks has made it no longer feasible to rely on a single vendor to deliver an end-to-end solution that fits every customer’s requirements of service agility and scalability.